Evrard Convert

Evrard Convert (1765-1838) was a colonel of the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Evrard Convert was born in Strasbourg in Alsace-Lorraine, France, in 1765. He became a colonel of the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars after the Battle of Neerwinden in 1793, and served in the Egypt Campaign of 1798 alongside Napoleon Bonaparte. He was wounded in the Battle of the Pyramids, hit by a musketball in the leg. Convert returned to Europe during the War of the Third Coalition in 1805, and was a veteran of the Battle of Austerlitz in December.

Convert became the proprietor of a regiment of the Old Guards during the Napoleonic Wars and was given the Legion d'Honneur award after the Battle of Friedland in 1807. Convert's regiment fought in the Russian Campaign of 1812, losing 590 of 1,600 troops during the Battle of Borodino. He returned home to France after the downfall of Napoleon in 1814 and died in Strasbourg.